Bitter Gourd - Karela

Karela's fruits have long been used in India as a popular home remedy and herbal supplement for diabetes. A herb that helps regulate blood sugar levels. It is used as an adjuvant in Diabetes Mellitus

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A herb that helps regulate blood sugar levels and keeps body functions operating normally. Karela's principle constituents are lectins, charantin and momordicine. The fruits have long been used in India as a folk remedy for diabetes mellitus. Lectins from the bitter gourd have shown significant antilipolytic and lipogenic activities. The fruits, leaves and extracts of Momordica charantia possess pharmacological properties and medicinal uses. It is useful as an emetic, purgative, in bilious affections, burning soles of the feet, as an anthelmentic, in piles, leprosy, jaundice, as a vermifuge, astringent in hemorrhoids, as a stomachic, antispasmodic, antioxytocic, hypoglycemic, antipyretic, mild hypotensive, anorectic and for the potentiation of ACh, histamine and BaCI2 induced contractions and inhibition of ACh of skeletal muscle.

Other Names

Momordica charantia, Bitter melon